Ruth Younger

Ruth Younger was a cook from Chicago, Illinois and the wife of Walter Lee Younger.

Biography
Ruth was born in Chicago, Illinois, and she married Walter Lee Younger in 1948. They lived in a dilapidated one-bedroom apartment in the city's South Side with their son Travis Younger, Ruth's mother-in-law Lena Younger, and her sister-in-law Beneatha Younger, and Ruth worked at a kitchen to provide for her family. She was content with her family's working-class situation, standing in stark contrast to her idealistic husband, who despised black culture for "keeping him down". She was concerned when her mother-in-law bought the family a house in the white middle-class neighborhood of Clybourne Park, as there were no colored families in the area, but she became ecstatic when she realized that she no longer had to worry about cracking walls, roaches, or rats.